On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:16:56 +0100, Philipp said:
> [2020-03-22 14:53] Ken Hornstein
> > >We think currently about removing the Previous-Sequence support for
> > >mmh. But because we don't use it we are not sure, if we missed some
> > >aspect of it. Therefor I would like to ask some questions.
>
[2020-03-22 21:13] Conrad Hughes
> One of the things I use it for is "unseeing" a message. Let's say I see
> someone has emailed me, I'm about to go out, want to take a peek at the
> message but don't want to mark it as seen — or alternatively I look at a
> message, think "gosh that's gonna take
[2020-03-22 14:53] Ken Hornstein
> >We think currently about removing the Previous-Sequence support for
> >mmh. But because we don't use it we are not sure, if we missed some
> >aspect of it. Therefor I would like to ask some questions.
>
> I personally find the previous-sequence rather useful
Hi Conrad,
> show !*; mark -sequence un -add ditto
>
> I bet there are magic command line switches to do this now (seems to
> happen half the time I post these days!)
There's
show -file `mhpath .`
that may give some success depending on your showproc and whether
mhshow(1) is run by
Hi Ken,
> I personally find the previous-sequence rather useful myself (when you
> find, for example, the results of "pick" were rather larger than you
> expected and didn't put it in a sequence). But that's up to you.
I don't use it, but then my .mh_profile has
pick: -sequence p
One of the things I use it for is "unseeing" a message. Let's say I see
someone has emailed me, I'm about to go out, want to take a peek at the
message but don't want to mark it as seen — or alternatively I look at a
message, think "gosh that's gonna take a lot of work to deal with" so
want to
>We think currently about removing the Previous-Sequence support for
>mmh. But because we don't use it we are not sure, if we missed some
>aspect of it. Therefor I would like to ask some questions.
I personally find the previous-sequence rather useful myself (when you
find, for example, the
[2020-03-22 14:58] Ralph Corderoy
> > 1. in the shell using the same messages again and spare some typing
> ...
> > The first completely covered with the shell history.
>
> If the arguments given to the last nmh command don't have a side effect
> then shell history may be useful, but
>
> show
Date:Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:42:25 +0100
From:Philipp
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| The first completely covered with the shell history.
Aside from what Ralph said, what shell history is that? Consider
a user using dash, or some similar shell.Also consider that the
commands
Hi Philipp,
> 1. in the shell using the same messages again and spare some typing
...
> The first completely covered with the shell history.
If the arguments given to the last nmh command don't have a side effect
then shell history may be useful, but
show next:3
scan !$
doesn't achieve
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